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So... Cinnamon over hyped or dark horse?
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nutmegoreo wrote: »chrisleyland314 wrote: »I've recently started adding cinnamon to my protein shakes, porridge and other foods for the reported health benefits. My reasoning being (as long as you don't consume copious amounts of it) it's not going to do me any damage its relatively cheap, tastes nice and the reported benefits of reduced inflammation and helping the body to use glucose better, it's a bit of a win win for me... Thoughts?
I LOVE cinnamon! Boil or bake some yams in cubes, then put some sugar (or sugar substitute), butter (or margarine) and lots of cinnamon! Mmmm.......deslish snack!
This sounds so good. I'm going to buy a yam for camping and adapt a little.
I read that as "adopt a little" and I'm like "Good on him/her for adopting a little yam."
Turned out to be a big yam, and it was raining to hard to cook it last night. Today! I shall report back. I have thought about adopting. A yam might be less life altering than a child. :laugh:3 -
chrisleyland314 wrote: »I've recently started adding cinnamon to my protein shakes, porridge and other foods for the reported health benefits. My reasoning being (as long as you don't consume copious amounts of it) it's not going to do me any damage its relatively cheap, tastes nice and the reported benefits of reduced inflammation and helping the body to use glucose better, it's a bit of a win win for me... Thoughts?
It's a great thing to include in your regular diet. The benefit of helping keep cholesterol numbers normal, and reducing inflammation should be enough without even talking about the excellent taste it can give to your porridge, shakes, etc... .
May as well add turmeric to your daily diet as well in other foods.0 -
SingingSingleTracker wrote: »chrisleyland314 wrote: »I've recently started adding cinnamon to my protein shakes, porridge and other foods for the reported health benefits. My reasoning being (as long as you don't consume copious amounts of it) it's not going to do me any damage its relatively cheap, tastes nice and the reported benefits of reduced inflammation and helping the body to use glucose better, it's a bit of a win win for me... Thoughts?
It's a great thing to include in your regular diet. The benefit of helping keep cholesterol numbers normal, and reducing inflammation should be enough without even talking about the excellent taste it can give to your porridge, shakes, etc... .
May as well add turmeric to your daily diet as well in other foods.
At what dosages does it provide a benefit to cholesterol and reducing inflammation (and kind of more importantly, what is causing inflammation to begin with)?0 -
SingingSingleTracker wrote: »chrisleyland314 wrote: »I've recently started adding cinnamon to my protein shakes, porridge and other foods for the reported health benefits. My reasoning being (as long as you don't consume copious amounts of it) it's not going to do me any damage its relatively cheap, tastes nice and the reported benefits of reduced inflammation and helping the body to use glucose better, it's a bit of a win win for me... Thoughts?
It's a great thing to include in your regular diet. The benefit of helping keep cholesterol numbers normal, and reducing inflammation should be enough without even talking about the excellent taste it can give to your porridge, shakes, etc... .
May as well add turmeric to your daily diet as well in other foods.
At what dosages does it provide a benefit to cholesterol and reducing inflammation (and kind of more importantly, what is causing inflammation to begin with)?
That was going to be my next question, i add maybe 1/4tsp to my oats and smoothies, but i doubt it's enough to see any health benefits??0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »SingingSingleTracker wrote: »chrisleyland314 wrote: »I've recently started adding cinnamon to my protein shakes, porridge and other foods for the reported health benefits. My reasoning being (as long as you don't consume copious amounts of it) it's not going to do me any damage its relatively cheap, tastes nice and the reported benefits of reduced inflammation and helping the body to use glucose better, it's a bit of a win win for me... Thoughts?
It's a great thing to include in your regular diet. The benefit of helping keep cholesterol numbers normal, and reducing inflammation should be enough without even talking about the excellent taste it can give to your porridge, shakes, etc... .
May as well add turmeric to your daily diet as well in other foods.
At what dosages does it provide a benefit to cholesterol and reducing inflammation (and kind of more importantly, what is causing inflammation to begin with)?
That was going to be my next question, i add maybe 1/4tsp to my oats and smoothies, but i doubt it's enough to see any health benefits??
That is what I am thinking.0 -
examine.com indicates 1-6g daily may help w/BS control.0
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SingingSingleTracker wrote: »chrisleyland314 wrote: »I've recently started adding cinnamon to my protein shakes, porridge and other foods for the reported health benefits. My reasoning being (as long as you don't consume copious amounts of it) it's not going to do me any damage its relatively cheap, tastes nice and the reported benefits of reduced inflammation and helping the body to use glucose better, it's a bit of a win win for me... Thoughts?
It's a great thing to include in your regular diet. The benefit of helping keep cholesterol numbers normal, and reducing inflammation should be enough without even talking about the excellent taste it can give to your porridge, shakes, etc... .
May as well add turmeric to your daily diet as well in other foods.
Might want to rethink that. Tumeric needs to be taken in pretty high doses for any measurable effect. Since both cinnamon and tumeric contain coumarin - which is toxic to the liver in high doses - and the levels of coumarin in both are highly variable, it's not wise to combine the two spices in amounts greater than are found in normal diets without caution.0 -
Cassia cinnamon has coumarin, Ceylon variety doesn't.0
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Cassia cinnamon has coumarin, Ceylon variety doesn't.
Ceylon does contain coumarin, but in much smaller amounts - not enough to be a problem unless you're dancing on the edge anyway. Regardless, cinnamon is not usually the problem, it's taking tumeric in some of the recommended doses on the interwebs. Combine that with 'making sure to get enough cinnamon' and you make your chances of damaging yourself that much greater.1 -
KetoneKaren wrote: »Cassia cinnamon has coumarin, Ceylon variety doesn't.
Ceylon does contain coumarin, but in much smaller amounts - not enough to be a problem unless you're dancing on the edge anyway. Regardless, cinnamon is not usually the problem, it's taking tumeric in some of the recommended doses on the interwebs. Combine that with 'making sure to get enough cinnamon' and you make your chances of damaging yourself that much greater.
Yeah I should have been more specific. Ceylon has about 0.004% coumarin as opposed to Cassia up to 1% coumarin.1 -
I thought cassia tasted the best. The coumarin amount isn't going to hurt you either way unless you are going absolutely crazy with the cinnamon.0
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